Guide to the Maurice Hamner Garland Papers MSS.1785
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Donnelly Lancaster
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
2006
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@bama.ua.edu
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
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Maurice Hamner Garland papers
- Unit ID:
MSS.1785
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet photocopies
- Dates:
1863-1865
- Abstract:
Photocopies of letters, notebooks, and other documents created and received by Maurice Garland while serving in the Confederate Army.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of letters, notebooks, and other documents created and received by Maurice Garland while serving in the Confederate Army.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster, 2006
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Maurice Garland papers, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of James M. Montgomery, 1986
Biographical/Historical note
Maurice Hamner Garland was the son of University of Alabama president Landon C. Garland and was a cadet at the University when the Civil War began. He served as Aide de Camp to his cousin Brigadier General Samuel M. Garland in Virginia until the latter's death in 1862. He was transferred to Mobile in 1863, where he worked with the engineer corps that designed and built the earthworks at Ft. Blakeley. He was captured by Union forces and interred as a prisoner of war at Ft. Gaines. Following the Civil War he became the first chancellor of Vanderbilt University.
Maurice Garland Box 6556